Envelopes exhibition, New York

The exhibition is on from 04 March until 05 May, and will feature designs that explore new ecological and sustainable potentials of the architectural surface in terms of the skin of a building and enveloping of subject and environment. On display will be full-scale, interactive models accompanied by architectural renderings in the form of drawings and computer animations, and documentation of the process  of investigation into these models. Guest curator is Christopher Hight.

All the work is newly produced for the exhibition or has never been shown in the United States. ”Envelopes” also feature !ndie architecture; Future Cities Lab; HouMinn Practice; Mary Ellen Carroll-MEC design studios; Philippe Rahm; Servo and Weathers.

Michael Hensel is a professor in the field of ”Research by design” at AHO. He is also a secretary of the OCEAN Design Research Association. Defne Sunguroglu Hensel is a research fellow at the AHO Institute of Design. Michael and Defnes exhibits show samples from their three research areas The Articulated Envelope, Complex Brick Assemblies, and Auxiliary Architectures.

For more information, see

• www.pratt.edu/exhibitions
• www.performanceorienteddesign.net

Hensel and Sunguroglu Hensel, alongside Hulya Ertas are also the editors of the architectural magazine Architectural Design no.1. 2010,  themed "Turkey: At the Threshold".

The magazine tackles issues of globalisation and the potential threat that a rapid rolling out of an overly homogenised built environment poses to rich local building traditions, which are founded on specific climatic knowledge and cultural diversity.

The edition provides an analytical and projective approach that highlights specific aspects of Turkey’s rich heritage and contemporary design culture that can shape a specific, yet pluralistic future identity and culture.

Read more

• www.wiley.com 
• www.performanceorienteddesign.net